I had not pleased him before in the question I had put to him about
a massacre, and that, I suppose, made this solicitation less
acceptable to him from me than it might have been from some other;
for looking sternly on me, he said: "Who are you, that take so much
upon you? Seeing you are so busy, you shall be the first man that
shall go into Bridewell;" and taking me by the shoulders, he thrust
me in.

As soon as I was in, the porter, pointing with his finger, directed
me to a fair pair of stairs on the farther side of a large court,
and bid me go up those stairs and go on till I could go no farther.

Accordingly I went up the stairs; the first flight whereof brought
me to a fair chapel on my left hand, which I could look into through
the iron grates, but could not have gone into if I would.

I knew that was not a place for me: wherefore, following my
direction and the winding of the stairs, I went up a storey higher,
which brought me into a room which I soon perceived to be a court-
room or place of judicature. After I had stood a while there, and
taken a view of it, observing a door on the farther side, I went to
it, and opened it, with intention to go in, but I quickly drew back,
being almost affrighted at the dismalness of the place; for besides
that the walls quite round were laid all over, from top to bottom,
in black, there stood in the middle of it a great whipping-post,
which was all the furniture it had.

In one of these two rooms judgment was given, and in the other it
was executed on those ill people who for their lewdness were sent to
this prison, and there sentenced to be whipped; which was so